meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Missing

489 // The Death of Karen Silkwood W/Mike Boettcher & Bob Sands

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by two veteran investigative journalists, Mike Boettcher & Bob Sands. Mike & Bob have worked together for decades but there is no story more worthy of justice than the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood, a woman poised to blow the whistle on one of the most powerful nuclear facilities in the world. Listen to Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery by ABC Audio here: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/radioactive-the-karen-silkwood-mystery/ Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from Missing, Crawlspace! Ad-free episodes and The Subscription Show at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ or subscribe right on your podcast app! Follow us: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today? I'm doing

0:43.1

fantastic today, Tim. We have a real treat for our listeners. We have two individuals on who are legendary

0:50.5

in their fields. They're investigative journalists. They've been all over the world.

0:55.2

The story that they bring to us today is one that happened 50 years ago. The anniversary of this

1:00.6

is on November 13th, which is when most people are listening to this episode. And they have a new

1:05.9

podcast about it, about their journey, about their investigation. Some people might have

1:10.0

heard the name before

1:11.2

and related it back to a movie with Meryl Streep as myself did and probably you. But Tim, before we

1:17.5

get to this, there's no movie that has been made about your mood. So we got to get something here.

1:21.8

How are you? Oh boy. I'm doing great. Thanks a lot for asking. And yeah, we are joined by a couple of great guests.

1:29.4

It's Mike Betcher and Bob Sands. And these guys are legends in the industry, and they are working

1:35.7

on a new podcast from ABC Audio. It's called Radioactive, the Karen Silkwood Mystery. And as you mentioned, this mystery has endured the test of time because this is a case from 1974 in Crescent, Oklahoma. And this mystery involves Karen's car potentially being forced off of the road. And a lot of people have heard the name Silkwood before, and the person behind that name is

2:03.9

Karen Silkwood, as you mentioned.

2:05.4

And she worked at the Kerr-Magee nuclear facility.

2:09.1

And this was a place that was poorly managed.

2:12.5

It had horrible conditions.

2:14.3

People were getting sick, and there was missing plutonium. So she became a

2:18.5

whistleblower and she was ready to take the company down on some level right before her untimely

2:24.1

demise. And it's officially been declared as an accident. And as you'll hear in this conversation,

2:29.0

it's sort of fallen on to the shoulders of Michael and Bob to bring some truth and justice to the story.

2:35.9

Well, we invite you to check out the podcast, Radioactive, the Karen Silkwood Mystery.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crawlspace Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crawlspace Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.